carter and reagan had zero chemistry and you have times when fdr, back in 1944, refused to talk. i want to see that s.o.b. dand e wouldn't meet him. the most generous i ever heard of was richard nixon in 1968 after beating hugh bert humphrey, visited humphrey and offered for him to be the ambassador and of course he said no. >> now, talking about offering a job, the president did say, james, that mr. romney had some good ideas in his post-election news conference. watch what the president said about mr. romney's idea. >> there may be ideas that he has with respect to jobs and growth that can help middle class families, which i want to hear. i'm not either prejudging what he's interested in doing nor am i suggesting i've got some specific assignment. but what i want to do is get ideas from him and see if there's some ways that we can potentially work together. >> so he was complementary of some of the ideas they may find common ground on, james. but we don't expect him to offer mr. romney a job tomorrow. >> i would be very surprised if mr. romney is offered any kind of official po